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Title Statement | $2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Two dollars a day |
Author | Edin, Kathryn, 1962- |
Additional Contributors | Shaefer, H. Luke |
Publication | Boston: Mariner Books,2016.©2015 |
Edition | First Mariner Books edition. |
Extent of Item | xxiv, 210 pages ; |
ISBN | 054481195X (pbk.) 9780544811959 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2925450 |
Contents | Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Where, then, from here? |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index. |
Summary | After two decades of research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't seen since the mid-1990s -- households surviving on virtually no income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children. The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Poverty--United States |
Income distribution--United States | |
Poor--Social conditions--21st century--United States |